Feature
A turntable for your player
Platter is the sixth player skin, a working turntable where the record spins as a track plays and the tonearm tracks the groove. Set it station-wide or pick it just for yourself.
The player shipped five skins last time. Here is a sixth, and it is the one we kept wanting to build. Platter, a reference turntable that becomes the whole interface. A record on the platter, a tonearm over it, the label spinning while the station plays.
What's new
Platter is a full-screen skin like the others, drawn on the same live stream. Nothing changes underneath. The record turns while a track is on air, the tonearm sits over the groove, the label carries the cover art, and the track detail reads off to the side like a sleeve note.
It joins Classic, Spool, Drift, Subamp and TTY. Six faces now, one station.
How to use it
Set it as the station default in admin. Open Settings, then Skin & Themes, and pick Platter under Player skin. It applies on the next poll, no restart.
Listeners can choose it just for themselves. In the player, tap the Appearance icon (the palette near the top of the header) and pick Platter under Player skin. That choice stays in their browser and beats the station default until they hit Use station skin.
Why it helps
Ask someone to picture radio as an object and most of them land on a turntable. Platter leans all the way into that. Put it on a screen in the room and the station stops looking like a web page and starts looking like a deck someone is spinning. The audio is the same broadcast everyone else hears, the face just makes it feel like a record.